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Author Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis), author

Title Conspiracy of silence : Queensland's frontier killing-times / Timothy Bottoms
Edition First edition
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Allen & unwin, 2013
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2013
©2013

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 W'PONDS  994.30049915 Bot/Cos  DUE 13-05-24
Description xxv, 258 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portriats ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Post-Convict Era and the Future South-East Queensland -- 2.European Invasion of the Future Southern Queensland -- 3.European Invasion of the Future Central Queensland -- 4.South-West Queensland-the Channel Country -- 5.Poisonings and Sexual Exploitation -- 6.Early Gulf and Central Queensland -- 7.The Frontier Moves to Far North Queensland and Cape York Peninsula -- 8.Dark Deeds in the Northern Rainforests-the Tully and Cairns Districts -- 9.The Gulf Country and Western Queensland -- 10.Queensland's Disreputable Reputation
Summary As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history
Analysis Aborigines
Australian
Colonialism
Ethnic relations
History
Homicide
Queensland
Violence
Notes "Foreword by Raymond Evans" -- Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Audience General
Tertiary/Undergraduate
Notes Timothy Bottoms is a Cairns-based historian and author of Djabugay Country and A History of Cairns
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Australia -- Queensland -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Wars.
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Government relations -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century.
Ethnology -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians.
Ethnology -- Australia -- Queensland.
Ethnology -- Australia -- Queensland.
Ethnology.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Government, Resistance to -- Australia -- Queensland.
Government, Resistance to -- Australia -- Queensland -- 19th century.
Government, Resistance to.
Massacres -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonial influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594
Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Colonial influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Colonization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562 -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Colonization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 1824-1900
Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008861
Author Evans, Raymond, author
ISBN 9781743313824 (paperback)
Other Titles Conspiracy of silence